Foie gras defender Ken Frank loses touch with reality: Let’s repeal AB 1520 [SIC, it’s SB 1520], which will create the biggest black market since Prohibition, and replace it with the world’s highest standards for humane foie gras. I doubt even one percent of California’s population eats foie gras in any given year. Yet Frank… Read more »

The most appalling conditions imaginable—even worse than the egg industry’s already pathetic standards. The release of this video will certainly give a push to the Humane Society and the United Egg Producer’s efforts to enact federal legislation against battery cages. ABC News is reporting: Kreider went on to say the company had no evidence the… Read more »

No video yet, but New York Times’ columnist Nicholas Kristof has the exclusive. He writes: For those who are wavering, think for a moment about the arc of empathy. Centuries ago, we humans amused ourselves by seeing other people executed or tortured. Until modern times, we considered it sport to see animals die horrible deaths…. Read more »

Dina ElBoghdady of The Washington Post reports: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday finalized a plan that would ask drug companies to voluntarily limit the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed, citing long-held concerns that their overuse in livestock promotes the development of drug resistant bacteria that can infect people. I can see drug companies… Read more »

This video is from last May but somehow hasn’t been widely seen. Ramsay discovers the real nightmare isn’t in the kitchen. After reviewing a factory pig farming video he says: It’s enough to make anyone turn fucking vegetarian for God’s sake. And I’ve always sort of knocked vegetarians and vegans for missing out on the… Read more »

Absolutely shameful, and a great embarrassment to the hospitals and to McDonald’s alike. Seven of these hospitals are specifically for children, because I suppose there’s nothing like serving a Happy Meal to a four-year-old suffering from leukemia. This is the sort of list that, if adequately publicized, will force McDonald’s to withdraw from this market…. Read more »

Feedstuffs reports: A study led by Dr. Mike Apley of Kansas State University shows that opponents of antibiotics use in livestock production wildly overestimate the amount given to food animals, according to the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). Maybe Apley’s right and antibiotic use has been overestimated, but who cares? This isn’t relevant. The only… Read more »

Last Saturday night, I clicked a Facebook ad for John Robbins’ new book: No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution. I was sold as soon as I read the title, and five seconds later I purchased the book for my Kindle. Now I’m wishing that Amazon.com offered a way to refund… Read more »

Powerful and disturbing stuff here. The already pathetically inadequate regulations regarding chicken inspection are about to get watered down even further. Leaving animal cruelty considerations completely aside, it’s hard to imagine that anybody who is well-informed would eat industrially-produced chicken. And like never before, the public is discovering the truth. Link.

An important essay on why “meat-free” wins over more people than “vegetarian.” Everybody who aspires to become an animal millionaire should read Cooney’s superb Change of Heart. There’s nobody else in the vegan world who compares to Cooney when it comes to figuring out the most persuasive approaches to animal advocacy. (Via Vegan Outreach.) Link.